Re: tlug: Big uptime

[Drago Goricanec <drago@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> wrote:
> 
> A little light news for a slow Monday afternoon.
> 
> Somewhere in the bowels of our computer room, a Linux box reached
> 497 days of uptime at 16:37 today and through a kernel divide-by-zero 
> error to end its streak.  That venerable denizen of our machine room
> is the GOL uptime champion.
> 
> Now back on duty and going for its next 497 days  :-)

That sounds like jiffies wraparound problem that used to exist in
older kernels.

497*24*3600*100 ~= 2^32.

Drago
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